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My personal philosohpy is to encourage people to write work flow or task based driven testcases and have the tester use their brains to find issues. I call it script based Exploratory testing. Check out Exploratoy testing by James Bach at http://satisfice.com . If they need to look at the UI in very high detail then the test case could simply be "compare the UI to the mockup and here's the link to the screen shot: http://(screen shot checked in to subversion)". If there is no mock up, trying to describe a GUI using words is completely ridiculous and it shouldn't be the job of a test case to document what the GUI looks like.

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My personal philosohpy is to encourage people to write work flow or task based driven testcases and have the tester use their brains to find issues. I call it script based Exploratory testing. Check out Exploratoy testing by James Bach at http://satisfice.com . If they need to look at the UI in very high detail then the test case could simply be "compare the UI to the mockup and here's the link to the screen shot.